> the framing that npm is so bad is really flatly invalid.

Is it really though if we're getting thousands of compromised packages regularly?

You can do all the right things and still be legit problematic.

I don’t think npm itself is measurably bad in ways that are useful to index on. Like others, I think that JS as an ecosystem has a culture that encourages both dependency sprawl and living at the edge, both of which contribute to the end problem of OSS malware.

(Rust has a similar culture, to be clear. I don’t think it’s a death knell.)